TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO L. B. KRASIN

Dictated:Dictated by phone on August 6, 1921Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIII.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeKrasin

Ihave received a copy of your letter to Dzerzhinsky
concerning shipbuilding. I agree with you that we should
not now build seagoing steamships. I believe that military
considerations indicate the same thing. It is undoubtedly
necessary to intensify the construction of tankers for the
oil fleet, especially in the Caspian Sea and on the Volga.
I ask you to:

1)requestan official Gosplan opinion on this matter;

2)ratifya precise decision at an official conference of
the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade and the
People’s Commissariat for Railways, and, if there is any
other department concerned, include it as well.